Stumbled across these negative space illustrations by Noma Bar.
Beautifully simple, they don’t feel forced at all.
Check out the rest of her stuff right here.
Over Christmas, I was lucky enough to hop over to New York, and while over there I happened to stumble across the Tim Burton Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). I’m a massive fan of Tim Burton, probably because he’s got such a weird imagination. But what I didn’t know was that he is the most amazing artist.
If you ever get to New York and see his exhibition you will not only see his most famous work like bits and pieces from Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissor Hands and so on, but you will see what I thought was the most exciting of his work, his character drawings. As you can see from the picture above, they are strange as hell, quirky, slightly dark and extremely funny. If you go to the exhibition website here and go to ‘works’ you can see more of these amazing drawings. By stepping into this exhibition you are basically stepping into Tim Burtons freakishly weird brain, and its fantastic!
Even though most of the spanish tourists ignored the signs and the constant shouting of security guards, no photographs were allowed to be taken in the exhibition. So the only picture I got… was of the entrance. Yea i wimped out, but you have to admit the entrance does look pretty good.
So, scrape together a bit of dosh by painting next doors fence or walking peoples dogs and get yourself to New York and see this exhibition. You will love it!
Its on until 26th April so you still have time!
Quick, hurry up!
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Found this lovely logo for Rosalyn Custom Totes by designer/illustrator Brent Couchman. A very simple, clever and elegant design. Take a look at his site www.brentcouchman.com where he’s got some more sweet work.
Over & out.
German ad agency, Philipp and Keuntje has come up with a very clever and original way of targeting this specific audience using Facebook. Not only is this very clever but it also won’t have cost them a penny.
Check out the video here
Speak The Web is a new conference organised with the aim of avoiding any of the usual stuff and pomp, and getting speakers into venues up North at an affordable cost. No travel, time off work and hotel bills to pay, get down to a venue, grab a pint and hear what these guys have to say. Each venue will have a local speaker on too, to encourage new blood and grass-roots participation.
The current venues are Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester, and one of the Group Hub leading lights, Jake Smith from JP74, will be on the bill for the Liverpool session.
If this sounds like something you want to know more about, visit the Speak The Web website, or follow them on Twitter.
‘22 Different ranges in one single swatch’ – The latest edition of Imaginative Papers by Fedrigoni.
Fedrigoni UK is hosting its first event in the North!
Taking place next Tuesday 8th December 2009 in Manchesters Walrus Bar
Come along eat, drink, and be merry with Fedrigoni.
On the night there is the chance to Win £100 of Magma Vouchers and a trip for 2
to the Graphic Design Museum in HOLLAND!
RSVP: info@fedrigoni.co.uk
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Interesting piece of interactive ambient for Parkinson’s Disease. What I find interesting is that I can imagine people having a go, ergo donating $1, even if they aren’t the slightest bit interested in Parkinson’s Disease.
The slowness, rigidness and shaking limbs often associated with Parkinson’s Disease can make simple, everyday tasks virtually impossible. For non-sufferers it’s difficult to comprehend an existence where opening a carton of milk or using a telephone is an impossible task. DDB/Rapp, Melbourne helped people experience this complete lack of physical control for themselves by filling arcade style skill-testers with everyday objects. The agency then placed them around Melbourne, collecting $1 coins to fund help Parkinson’s Victoria’s research at the same time. In the first 12 hours over $5000 was collected.
Found this on Lurzer’s Archive spot of the week.
Why you would want to eat a hippo is beyond me but it’s pretty dam funny.
One of our new account execs found this interactive Pringles ad which picked up a Gold Cyber Lion at Cannes this year. I challenge anyone to stop clicking before the end. Just paste the link below into your browser…
http://awardshome.com/cannes2009/pringles/can-hands.html
I really like this idea for an Eco consultant’s business card. But bordering on being OCD I’m not sure I’d put in my wallet as it wouldn’t line up with the other business cards I have in there! (Anal or what.) Also, is manufacturing a rubber stamp more ecological than printing a business card? That said, if I was on a jury, I’d give it a gong for originality.
